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Who Voted For CISPA?

H.R. 3523: Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (On Passage of the Bill):... more

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Reality Check Half Hour Special on CISPA and other Internet Piracy Bills, Part 2

Ben Swann takes a look at SOPA, PIPA, CISPA, ACTA and even the so called Legal... more

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Reality Check CISPA 30 Minute Special, Part 1

Ben Swann takes a look at the issues with CISPA and where it stands in Part 1 of this... more

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Are You A Cyberbully?

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The Deal: CISPA and Other Unintentional Tyrannies

The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act or CISPA is but another example of... more

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House Passes CISPA, White House May Veto

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Avoid Google Drive

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CISPA: Explained In 2 Minutes (Or Less!)

CISPA is the new Internet spying bill going to a House vote in Congress later this... more

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Ron Paul: Corporations will ‘act as government spies’ under CISPA

Presidential candidate Ron Paul, a Republican Congressman from Texas, has emerged as the leading opponent of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), widely billed as a follow-up to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), a controversial set of Internet regulations killed earlier this year by an online mass work stoppage protest.

In a video released Monday morning, Paul called CISPA “an Internet monitoring bill” that would enable the government and corporations to review citizens’ private communications without any judicial oversight.

The bill proposes an information sharing scheme between the National Security Agency (NSA) and corporate networks under the auspice of cyber security, and defines “cyber threat intelligence” to include details pertaining to the “theft or misappropriation” of “intellectual property.”

CISPA currently enjoys a broad base of support among some of the same companies that opposed SOPA, including Google and Facebook. The bill is expected to come up for a vote in the House of Representatives later this week despite strong opposition from groups like the American Civil Liberties Union, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Center for Democracy and Technology, the Constitution Project, Fight for the Future and others.

Joining the bill’s opposition on Monday, Paul warned that CISPA “represents an alarming form of corporatism, as it further intertwines government with companies like Google and Facebook.”

“It permits them to hand over your private information to government officials without a warrant, circumventing well known federal laws like the Wiretap Act and the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, ” he said. “It also grants a broad immunity from lawsuits for doing so, leaving you without recourse for invasion of privacy.”

“Simply put, CISPA encourages some of our most successful Internet companies to act as government spies, sewing distrust in social media and chilling communications in one segment of the world economy where Americans still lead,” Paul added. “…If you believe in privacy and free markets, you should be deeply concerned about the proposed marriage of government intelligence gathering with private, profit-seeking companies.”

President Barack Obama has not yet commented on CISPA, but a National Security Council spokesperson said last week that he might not sign it without significant alterations that safeguard privacy rights. The bill’s primary sponsor, Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), has said he’s confident that it will pass.

Paul has had very little success in coalition building in his years as a congressman save but for a popular campaign to audit the Federal Reserve, so it’s not immediately clear whether his opposition to CISPA will marshal much support among fellow Republicans, who were seen as key to killing SOPA and its sister bill in the Senate.

The libertarian-leaning congressman is still in the Republican presidential race, but has fallen so far behind former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) that many believe it would be impossible to catch up at this point. He’s promised to stay in the race because he believes that Romney could yet “stumble” before the Republican convention this August.

This video was published to YouTube on Sunday, April 22, 2012.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/23/ron-paul-corporations-will-act-as-government-spies-under-cispa/Presidential candidate Ron Paul, a Republican Congressman from Texas, has emerged as... more

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Web surveillance plans create 'nation of suspects'

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Europe rubber stamps data-sharing agreement with US

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I will delete my Facebook account on July 4th, 2012 if Zuckerberg does not withdraw his support of CISPA. Who's with me? | Facebook

What is Facebook thinking? They've signed on in support of CISPA -- the new bill... more

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800+ major corporations and U.S. Chamber of Commerce support internet freedom-crushing CISPA

It’s quite sad for me to say that over 3 million businesses in the United States... more

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Civil Libertarians Launch Campaign Against CISPA

Congress is rolling out the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) and... more

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Move over SOPA & PIPA: Here comes CISPA - 'net censorship updated

In the wake of SOPA and PIPA, there is yet another terrifying bill on the table. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (or CISPA for short) which is currently being discussed by Congress.

In Washington, Congress is discussing the best way to avert the ongoing cyberattacks and some legislators have put forward a new act which, if it passes Congress, will allow the government access to personal correspondence of any person of their choosing.
Much like the Big Brother tactics in the United Kingdom recently, this bill will likely cause an outcry of condemnation and criticism, as happened with the deceased SOPA and PIPA bills.

The title of this controversial act is H.R. 3523 and it has been dubbed the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (or CISPA for short). It is feared that CISPA is far worse than SOPA and PIPA in its possible effects on the Internet.

While this paper has been created under the guise of being a necessary weapon in the U.S. war against cyberattacks, the wording of the paper is vague and broad. It is thought that the act could allow Congress to circumvent existing exemptions to online privacy laws and would allow the monitoring and censorship of any user and also stop online communications which they deem disruptive to the government or to private parties.

Critics say that CISPA would give any federal entity that claims it is threatened by online interactions the ability to take action against the "perpetrator". Unlike the SOPA and PIPA acts which were eventually discarded after a successful online campaign, widespread recognition of what the latest proposed law will do has yet to surface to the same degree.

Kendall Burman of the Center for Democracy and Technology tells RT:

“We have a number of concerns with something like this bill that creates sort of a vast hole in the privacy law to allow government to receive these kinds of information.”
She states that the bill, as it stands, allows the U.S. government to involve itself in any online correspondence if it believes there is reason to suspect cyber crime.
As with other recent attempts at Internet censorship that have been discussed in Congress, the wording within the CISPA allows the government to interpret the law so broadly, that any online communication or interaction could then be suspect, and monitored without the knowledge of the parties concerned.

The CDT in a press release last month warned that CISPA allows Internet Service Providers to “funnel private communications and related information back to the government without adequate privacy protections and controls. The bill does not specify which agencies ISPs could disclose customer data to, but the structure and incentives in the bill raise a very real possibility that the National Security Agency or the DOD’s Cybercommand would be the primary recipient.”

CISPA has also been condemned by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an online advocacy group. They say that “It effectively creates a ‘cybersecurity'’ exemption to all existing laws. There are almost no restrictions on what can be collected and how it can be used, provided a company can claim it was motivated by ‘cybersecurity purposes'.” ...

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http://digitaljournal.com/article/322396In the wake of SOPA and PIPA, there is yet another terrifying bill on the table. The... more

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Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Saturday

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Why You Should Care: SOPA (Part 1)

Why You Should Care: SOPA (E1) http://youtu.be/Jt2Aag32jYg

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Where Do You Stand?

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Worse Than SOPA! New CISPA Cybersecurity Bill Will Censor The Internet!

April 03, 2012 Russia Today News http://youtu.be/KoM_tKfwDWA

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Presidential Candidate Rocky Anderson Speaks At Occupy Wall Street Strategy Meeting

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